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title: The Queen hung a little cross round his neck, and after much weeping… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Queen hung a little cross round his neck, and after much weeping and lamentation the Prince bade them all farewell and set forth on his journey. Who acts: Queen, weeping, horse. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 52

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The Queen hung a little cross round his neck, and after much weeping and lamentation the Prince bade them all farewell and set forth on his journey.

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**Who acts:** Queen, weeping, horse · **What happens:** hang, set, journey · **To what, where:** little cross, Prince bade, journey

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, weeping, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:27:52
# text = The Queen hung a little cross round his neck, and after much weeping and lamentation the Prince bade them all farewell and set forth on his journey.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | the Queen | a little cross |  |  | after much weeping and lamentation and the Prince bade | round horse's neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Patient |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive | weeping | the Prince bade *not said here* |  | horse's journey |  | farewell, forth *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bade=Theme on journey=Destination |
| 3 | **journey** |  | horse |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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